Thursday, November 12, 2009

senryu

ともだちわ
ボーイフレンド 
ちょっと

friend
boyfriend
a little

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ウォレット
かいました から
まずしい

wallet
because i buy
poor

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あまい すき
カンヂ と ケキ
ふとっちょ 

sweet [i] like
candy and cake
fat person

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The reason I used katakana for ボーイフレンド [boyfriend], ウォレット [wallet], カンヂ [candy], and ケキ [cake] are because they are all loan words from the English language.

While researching the Japanese translation for "boyfriend," I came across two other possibilties: かれ and かれし. Although I found these other translations, it seemed that using boyfriend as a loan word, spelled in katakana, was more commonly used.

As for the word wallet, I was not able to find another translation.

I have often seen candy and cake written in katakana at the grocery store and am still not sure if there are Japanese words to describe them.

3 comments:

  1. おもしろいですね。

    でもどうして5-7-5じゃありませんか?

    ともだちわ→ともだちは
    Candy=キャンディー
    Cake=ケーキ

    ウォレットはあまりつかいません。

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  2. とてもたのしいですね。わたしょもカンヂとケキがすきです。毎日デザトーをたべます。きのうの晩チョコレトーたくさんたべばした。:)

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  3. Esther さん
    とてもcreativeですね。

    I think your senryu is well-written in that you leave out some of the words that might be needed in order to convey meanings, but even without them, your senryus are easily understandable.

    Min Hyun

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